India seeks to impose US$15mil fine for ‘false’ maps


  • TECH
  • Friday, 06 May 2016

An attendee uses Google Map on a Google Nexus 7 tablet during Google I/O 2012 Conference at Moscone Center in San Francisco, California June 27, 2012. REUTERS/Stephen Lam/Files

NEW DELHI: Anyone distributing a map the Indian government deems to be “wrong” could be liable for a billion-rupee (RM60.19mil) fine and jail time under a new draft bill published this week. 

Maps are a highly sensitive issue in India, which has long-running border disputes with several of its neighbours, most famously over the divided Himalayan region of Kashmir. 

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